The definition also discusses improvements in decision making, learning, group work, and tapping into the strictures of self-organizing and adaptive systems, all of which sound right. Small steps, such as working in a small group (*cough* L&D? Listening to a talk last week led me to ponder the different terms for what it is I lobby for. The goal is to make organizations accomplish their goals, and to continue to be able to do so.

Should they be grouped by their ingredient type? Or should I group them together as a special functional group as I currently do for baking ingredients? Don’t laugh. I’m sure you’ve done this before. At the office, there’s a refrigerator cleanup every two weeks. At least I think it happens every two weeks. The office administrator sends out an email or posts a note on the fridge, warning you that things will be dumped if they’re not labeled.

The qualitative data is collected through focus groups with students from all levels of study. Ann de Meulemeester from Ghent University presented some of the research about information literacy for self efficacy, which highlighted the role that IL has in the academic curriculum and for lifelong learning. Their research has shown that new students' confidence level of their searching abilities is much higher than the reality.

The last slide shows some of the initiatives, and he namechecked the CILIP Information Literacy group as funding some small scale research projects. John Crawford's talk on Evaluating Information Literacy Activity at a National Level: an Introductory Study is the next one I'll liveblog from the European Conference on Information Literacy in Saint-Malo. Crawford's context was Scotland.

There have been training programmes of a few months, hosted at Belgian universities, with the target group young information professionals mainly from Africa, Asia and Latin America. This morning I presented on behalf of Dr Batool, a former PhD student, in a pecha kucha session at the European Conference on Information Literacy in Saint-Malo, France.

A concept mapping too was used to facilitate group mapping of practices in the landscape and to raise and discuss differences in practice. Andrew began his talk with a brief discussion of the misinformation laden Brexit election, and commented on the neoliberal agenda that is closing libraries and increasing state surveillance.

Students work frequently in groups, and students from different time zones can struggle with scheduling. It was really interesting to hear how Virginia manages and facilitates group work for distance learning students. Virginia Tucker from San Jose State University presented first after the coffee break on her research into threshold concepts in IL professional education.

The plan is four 4 hours, in a space that has computers and it is designed for small groups of citizens, to be implemented in public libraries. This reminds me of an exercise I used to do in an undergraduate research methods class, where students proposed questions about students' information behaviour, filled in a questionnaire compiled from the questions (before the class) and then analysed the questionnaire in groups the following week.

Charlie Inskip from the department of information studies at UCL was the first speaker after lunch and presented his research project "on the move", funded by the CILIP information literacy group. They conducted 18 interviews at an insurance firm in the city of London, and 2 focus groups. Five interviews and one focus group were also conducted with students. The study used a mixed methods approach, with a sample of women's entrepreneur groups.

There was some difference by education (people with lower educational levels having less confidence) particularly in the younger group. I'm in a session on science literacy at the European Conference on Information Literacy , and Ágústa Pálsdóttir is talking on Senior Citizens Science Literacy and Health Self-Efficacy. She noted that with the growth in the proportion of older people, it was important for them to be engaged in health promotion interventions.

The research methods were observation (59 classes, 1398 children), children's evaluations, 360 degree feedback, focus groups with teachers and pre- and post- tests for children. Pavla Kovarova spoke about information behaviour and e-safety of primary school children in the Czech Republic. Previous research has shown that children download illegal and inappropriate content. They struggle to evaluate quality of material.

In terms of communication between the researchers, this was also not straightforward since e.g. Chinese colleagues could not use Google groups. Another liveblog from the European Conference on Information Literacy in Saint-Malo, France. Next for me, Diane Mizrachi chaired a panel on the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS).

9: Slack : This social sharing platform, with activity streams, is a great way to stay connected and work in small groups and I am a member of two active Slack ‘communities of practice’: the essential space between work groups and social networks. Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 100 Tools for learning. This is the 11th year! Voting closes on 22 September 2017. Here are my top tools this year, with the past five years shown below.

But our close-knit social groups will not provide us with the diversity of knowledge we need to navigate the complexities of our networked world. Christian Madsbjerg concludes in his book, Sensemaking : “What are people for? Algorithms can do many things, but they will never actually give a damn. People are for caring.”. How can we understand the complexity of human networks, especially when they are massaged by algorithms that drive our social media?

Some people, whom we colloquially called ‘hunters,’ had a clear view of whom they aspired to become but saw themselves as lacking the competence and connections that would get them there … The hunters regarded others as role models and sources of feedback, and the institution as a training ground … Hunters focused on cultivating flexibility — the ability to get along with different groups and adapt to the demands of many organizations. —

The article is based on qualitative and quantitative text analysis of 102 individual student logs, qualitative text analysis of 36 student group assignments, feedback from an evaluation form and 285 blog and wiki comments from students, nurse educators, nurse supervisors and librarians. - Sheidlower, S. 2017). Accommodating the disabled in library one-shots at York College/CUNY. codex , 4(3).

While most of my group of friends were relaxing and just generally hanging out, one friend – we’ll call him Dave – was watching the other pair climb. Here are a couple of stories I’d like to share on the idea of shared understanding. The first, a conversation between me and my son, Zeke, highlights the importance of being aware of and understanding the context of a situation from different people’s perspective.

This, and what happened in Charlottesville, were potent reminders for me that I belong to a group that has only had conditional whiteness bestowed upon us for a short period of time and that it could be taken away from us at any time. I write this to illustrate that what is happening with this new emboldening of neo-Nazis and other hate groups is very personal for me and not just academic.

In a business environment marked by information technology, global competition, and fast-paced change, weblike networks are emerging not only among businesses forming strategic partnerships, but also among environmental, human-rights, and other activist groups — even among government agencies seeking to short-circuit the bureaucracy and get something done. Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

I asked this question in the L&D Revolution LinkedIn group I have to support the Revolutionize L&D book , but thought I’d ask it here as well. In both Keith Sawyer’s Group Genius and Stephen Johnson’s Where Do Good Ideas Come From , real innovation bubbles along, requiring time and serendipity. And I’ve asked it before , but I have some new thoughts based upon thinking about McChrystal’s Team of Teams.

The context for the copyright education was an information literacy programme for graduate students (a non-homogenous group). My second post on the mini-conference on Models for Copyright Education in Information Literacy Programs at the 2017 World Library and Information Conference held in the Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa (University of Lower Silesia), Wroclaw. The post-lunch session was on Librarians Teaching Faculty and Students: Copyright Literacy in Higher Education (Part 1).

She showed an example video and said that a typical timing was: Introduction (5 min); Group work (10 min), Discussion (10 min), Conclusion (5 min). I am liveblogging this from the mini-conference on Models for Copyright Education in Information Literacy Programs at the 2017 World Library and Information Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. It was held in the Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa (University of Lower Silesia).

At the end of the session we'll have a chance to reflect on the presentations as a group and how we might incorporate any new ideas into our own teaching practice." The Norfolk Teaching Librarians' Network is running a free TeachMeet on 5 September 2017 (1pm to 3:30pm) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Presenters (10-minute presentations) are sought to share a teaching activity or idea.

So even in the open space you’d want people mixed up, but most folks still tend to put groups together. I recently read that Apple’s new office plan is receiving bad press. This surprises me, given that Apple usually has their handle on the latest in ideas. Yet, upon investigation, it’s clear that they appear to not be particularly innovative in their approach to work spaces. Here’s why. The report I saw says that Apple is intending to use an open office plan.

Decurion believes that when authentic community forms in groups, learning happens: a collective intelligence. In the theaters, Pulse-Check Huddles occur throughout the evening, where groups of crew members and managers give and receive feedback on how the floor operations are going and how they can be improved.

A small group of social terrorists have hijacked the rational discourse led by society’s most accomplished, intelligent, and promising organizations. The post No. Social Terrorists Will Not Win appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. cross posted from NewCo Shift ). Let’s start with this: Google is not a perfect company. It’s easy to cast it as an omniscient and evil villain, the leader of a millennium-spanning illuminati hellbent on world subjugation. Google the oppressor.

Hosted by the Institute for the Future , we gathered in groups beforehand to generate questions that were used in a subsequent session. Our group looked at Values and Responsibilities. I had the opportunity to attend a special event pondering the ethical issues that surround Artificial Intelligence (AI). Vint Cerf, co-developer of the TCP/IP protocol that enabled the internet, currently at Google, responded to the questions. Quite the heady experience!

“At 10 months, the differences between these two groups were striking.” – Dr Pamela Maher. • Try one of PsyBlog's ebooks, all written by Dr Jeremy Dean: Activate: How To Find Joy Again By Changing What You Do (NEW). The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic. Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. Psychology

To attend (free) you need to become a member of one of the co-organiser organisationa, the Public and Mobile Libraries Group (PMLG) and Health Libraries Group (HLG). More information about this event, and how to join the groups, at [link] Photo by Sheila Webber: lavender, July 2017. On 16 August 2017 at Richmond Library, Greater London, UK, there is a one-day event Health Literacy Skills and Partnership Working for Public and Health Libraries.

The group eating the superfruit had improved memory and better access to words and concepts. • Try one of PsyBlog's ebooks, all written by Dr Jeremy Dean: Activate: How To Find Joy Again By Changing What You Do (NEW). The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic. Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. Psychology

People are opting to communicate via private group discussions - The majority of internet users (72%) say that they are confident in their ability to manage access to their personal data online. Ofcom's annual (UK) Adults' media use and attitudes report was published last month. It gives "gives detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among UK adults aged 16+. It covers TV, radio, mobile phones, games, and the internet, with a particular focus on the latter."

In September 2017, Rudaí 23 begins, "an online, self-directed course based on the 23 Things program, delivered by a collaborative group of librarians and educators, in association with the Western Regional Section of the Library Association of Ireland , and The Library Association of Ireland." "23 Things" initiatives started some time ago, using open tools like blogs to help librarians learn about using Web 2.0

Learning Opportunities for Group Learning: An empirical assessment from the learning organization perspective. How We Learn in Organizations group learning interactive technology learning organization learning spaces organizational learning spirituality virtual teamsI have a new article published in a series on The Future of Workplace Learning by Emerald Publishing. My article, Learning Together and Working Apart: Routines for organizational learning in virtual teams, is here. .

The project was funded by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Another presentation from the i3 conference at RGU in Aberdeen. Peter Cruickshank (presenter), Professor Hazel Hall and Dr Bruce Ryan authored a paper on Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen engagement.

They studied how 20 small groups who had to coordinate activity across geographical space carried out a task. Then have to work in groups to produce a proposal about something which will improve the 2 museum experiences (I think).

The presenters noted responses to the Framework in the literature, which they identified "generally reflect excitement about the framework" with some critique (which, on reflection, is interesting in showing a gap between the discourse in dicussion groups etc.

The older group saw memory as more complex, they had more ideas of tools needed to help memory. There were some metaphors that cut across all age groups. I'm liveblogging from the i3 conference at RGU in Aberdeen Dr Leanne Bowler presented on Modeling the Metamemory of Information Seekers Through Visual Metaphor. She was aiming to generate visual metaphors that reveal, for example, awareness and beliefs about ones own memory, and about finding and refinding information.

They went on to talk more about photo voice (where the participants take photos in reaction to a prompt from the researcher, and then generally the researcher carries out an interview or focus groups with the photos as a focus and a way of eliciting response). articipants discussed this in focus groups, and there was also active participation in creating presentations and exhibiting the photos to stakeholders. Day 2 of my liveblogging from the i3 conference at RGU in Aberdeen.

They had 24 transcripts of interviews and focus groups with 34 children. I'm liveblogging from the i3 conference at RGU in Aberdeen. The first session this afternoon was authored by Dr Leanne Bowler, Professor Heidi Julien and Dr Leslie Haddon (presented by Bowler and Julien): Exploring Youth Information-Seeking Behaviour and Mobile Technologies Through a Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data: Methodological Approaches.

Farm Forum innovations included a regional report-back system, whereby group conclusions were collected centrally and broadcast regularly across Canada, occasionally being sent to appropriate governments. Even though radio is a one-way medium, innovations such as programme guides by mail one week in advance, local discussion groups, and national feedback on individual responses kept people actively involved.

Much of the very helpful research and theory that under lies our field of KM is produced in the related disciplines of Organization Behavior, Organization Learning, Group Dynamics, Computer Science, and Organizational Psychology. To do this employees must make use of learning behaviors , such as, asking for help from other members, discussing differences of opinion openly rather than privately or outside the group, revealing their own errors to the group, and several more.

The network form, the fourth to mature, serves to connect dispersed groups and individuals so that they may coordinate and act conjointly. Knowledge sharing can foster innovation, especially if diverse groups of people are engaged in active experimentation.

These associations could also be described as communities of practice – self-forming groups of engaged citizens. John McKnight, in The Careless Society , described these groups as having three key capabilities: “ the power to decide there was a problem, the power to decide how to solve the problem – that is, the expert’s power – and then the power to solve the problem ”. In 2008, CEO’s for Cities recommended a more inclusive way of supporting learning in the community.

These need to be temporary so people can reform into different groups, according to the situation. In my last post I noted that many organizations today are nothing more than attractive prisons. The current organizational tyranny was a response to a linear, print-based world. These organizations are artifacts of a time when information was scarce and hard to share, and when connections with others were difficult to make and required command and control.

all the free IL Group places are gone, I'm afraid). There are still some priced places (£60) available on the one-day workshop on phenomenography I am running with colleagues on 13 June 2017 here in the Information School Sheffield University, UK. It is called Improving Library and Information Services: Phenomenographically! and is an introduction to phenomenography for anyone in the library/information field.

“It’s very hard for members of the three groups to find common ground. People tend to see autism through the lens of personal experience. An autistic college student who has trouble with organization and social skills is likely to view autism very differently from a parent whose child is non verbal, cognitively disabled, and self injurious. ” Source – Division in the Autism Community – what next for us? Filed under: Pound of Obscure.

I’ve always felt that this group of artifacts — the “things” that we claim as digital — the companies and the devices, the pained metaphors ( cloud?! ) The post Is Humanity Obsolete? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image. Upon finishing Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus , I found an unwelcome kink in my otherwise comfortably adjusted frame of reference.

The point is to develop meta-skills like digital document creation (and others such as presentations, working in groups, research, etc) as well as the domain skills. Been thinking about how to generate meaningful learning in optimal (read: concise but effective) ways. And a lot of what I’ve been thinking about involves contextualized meaningful practice (no surprise there, eh?). So how might this play out?

Individuals need to have the flexibility to leave their work group and to select the next temporary boss. Today we hear a lot about models like holacracy and teal organizations that are focused on changing how we work together in organizations.

Reports are available for a project funded by the UK's Information Literacy Group : Information Literacy for Demographic Engagement (IL-DEM). The project was completed by a team from the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. This comprised Professor Hazel Hall, Peter Cruickshank and Dr Bruce Ryan.

These are what Esko Kilpi calls ‘Flash Networks’ These need to be temporary so people can reform into different groups, according to the situation. How can you survive in the jungle when you live in a zoo? “Our silos (I won’t even mention cubicles!), like the cages in the zoo, exist to control behaviour and reduce complexity by creating homogeneity and closed environments.

However, in designing learning, working in groups has some real negative perceptions and realities. As my kids complained, on group projects some team members will reliably slack, letting the most driven student do the work. When I assigned group projects, I told my students I expected them to do equal work, and would grade accordingly. Another issue is support for working in groups. So I wrote up a little guide to doing group work, and those problems subsided.

According to "Innovation Matters," a research report by PA Consulting Group, as many as two thirds of senior executives surveyed globally state that without mastering innovation, they believe their organizations "will not survive

Adoption rates for seniors in their 70s fall in between these two groups. Another new report by the Pew Internet research centre investigates the use of technology by seniors in the USA. It identifies that use is increasing, including use of social media and of broadband at home, but there are variations by demographic, in particular better educated seniors with higher incomes have increased their use more, and younger seniors use technology more than older seniors.

A critical friend takes the time to fully understand the context of the work presented and the outcomes that the person or group is working toward. I’m participating in an engagement, and they were struggling to define my role. Someone mentioned that I’m serving as a ‘critical friend’, and the others cottoned on to it. I hadn’t heard that term so I explored, and liked what I found. Thought I’d share it.

Last year Jane Hart and I worked with The Carlsberg Group to add PKM into their Learning Leaders Program. Information you gather from online sources can be shared with other parents at play dates, get togethers, support groups or on personal blogs. Information you gather from online sources can be shared through in-person discussions with work peers, parents, at staff meetings and support groups or via online mediums including social media and personal blogs.

Similarly, winning can also help to engage your wider group of local site managers , publishers, communicators, technologists, champions and others across your organisation who make your intranet or digital workplace the success it is. It’s also nice to get some recognition from peers across the wider global intranet and digital workplace community (who are a very friendly and supportive group).

He has studied airline cockpit teams, high tech teams, orchestras, chamber music groups, bank teams, and many others. Work groups of 10 or more are certain to encounter free-riding or “social loafing” problems.” There are many insightful researchers and theorist who come from other disciplines, but have much to offer knowledge managers. Richard Hackman is one of those.

There is a Teachmeet (a WHELF Research Group event, sponsored by the Information Literacy Group) on 10 May 1-4pm at Bangor University, Wales: Librarians Supporting the Research Lifecycle / Llyfrgellwyr yn Cefnogi'r Broses Ymchwil "Please join us to hear researchers at Bangor University and Natural Resources Wales describe their research lifecycle, pressure points and support they find useful from the library service.

The UK's Information Literacy Group is holding an event on 5 June 2017 in London, UK. This event will be led by Dr Emma Coonan (Editor Journal of information literacy ) and Dr Geoff Walton (Chair of the Information Literacy Group's Research Bursaries Panel) and will offer accessible and practical advice on putting together a research bid, with time for you to work on developing your own research proposal and bid."

A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a “group of interdisciplinary faculty who engage in an active, collaborative, year-long program” in order to focus on “researching and testing a scholarly and pedagogical topic that is important to the larger academic community.” Interesting short paper about a successful initaitive to get faculty involved in ongoing discussion about information literacy, triggered by the new ACRL Framework for IL: Vance, J., Lanfear, A.K. and Richey, P. 2017).

People who are particularly neurotic may benefit from this group of common foods — plus exercise. Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic. • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. Psychology

Group collaboration is supported through practices like narrating your work. Your organization just implemented an enterprise collaboration platform. Now what? Most large organizations today have some kind of knowledge-sharing platform. The recent announcement of Jive’s purchase shows that this field is consolidating with a few large players dominating. The arrival of Workplace by Facebook may even limit tool choice more.

c)Preparing: Identify the major focus areas to explore for surveys, interviews, focus groups. For workshops, think of having a main facilitator to drive the whole workshop, and co-facilitators to coach and guide individuals or groups within the workshop activities. These guidelines were compiled by the participants in the Kuala Lumpur Knowledge Management Roundtable, May 3 2017, hosted by Securities Commission Malaysia. BEFORE THE KNOWLEDGE AUDIT.

c)Preparing: Identify the major focus areas to explore for surveys, interviews, focus groups. For workshops, think of having a main facilitator to drive the whole workshop, and co-facilitators to coach and guide individuals or groups within the workshop activities. These guidelines were compiled by the participants in the Kuala Lumpur Knowledge Management Roundtable, May 3 2017, hosted by Securities Commission Malaysia. BEFORE THE KNOWLEDGE AUDIT.

Over and over different members of the group said to each new resident, “Welcome Home.” When the ceremony was over, a group escorted each new resident to their new home. Today, I had the opportunity to visit a small village on the outskirts of Austin, called Community First. It is a community of tiny houses built for the homeless. I went for a "House Blessing.” Four homeless people were moving in, each into their own one room home.

It is a free event and is sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. There is a Teachmeet in Birmingham, UK (at Aston University), on 12 July 2017 1-4pm: Supporting online learners, what works? A discussion of innovative methods in providing distance learners with information literacy and library skills. Different modes of study are becoming increasingly common in education and at Aston University we are about to launch several online learning courses.

Socially dissimilar groups of people have less confidence in their decisions than socially similar ones. Individuals have to get outside of their affinity groups. If we are to encourage innovation, we have to work hard at engaging with diverse groups of people. “It turns out that to develop a ‘cumulative culture’ – technology that constantly ratchets up in complexity and diversity – a species needs to be able to share information very accurately.

I have a group for the Revolution , which largely is me posting things but I do try to stir up conversations. Slack is another tool I use with some groups to stay in touch. Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year.

By building the skills and knowledge of your broader group, you will: help every part of the organisation succeed, whether they’re from HR, comms, IT or the business. Every intranet and digital workplace team is supported by an extended team of content publishers, owners and site administrator. In many organisations, this numbers in the hundreds (or more!). So the question isn’t just: is your intranet effective and successful?

Jason Brownlee provides an overview of eleven Machine Learning Algorithms , grouped by how they ‘learn’ and what they do. What happens when you connect unthinking computer programs with a culture of obedience and compliance? Algorithms run much of society and business today, from applying for a mortgage to determining which passengers to eject from an overbooked aircraft. Coupled with authoritarianism, algorithms can produce devastating results, says John Robb at Global Guerillas. “If

On the first day, in small groups of five, we asked participants to, “Tell a story of a successful knowledge sharing experience in healthcare that you are familiar with: what happened, and what were the factors that made it successful?” Learn in small groups integrate in the large group. The next morning they presented the whole group with twelve themes and everyone was invited to join a group based on the theme they could best contribute to.

Some people label a group based on the behavior of a few members. Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. curtisogden : ‘Overheard: Drucker said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. I say repeatedly that ‘Systems eat culture for lunch’ @katrynadow : “Consulting teaches you are only as good as your last gig, so reputation is critical.”

On Tuesday the winners of the UK's Information Literacy Group's Information Literacy awards were announced at the LILAC conference. The Information Literacy Award winner was Helen Howard from the University of Leeds, in particular for her work with second year students [link]. The winner of the Credo Digital Award was Charlie Farley for 23 Things for Digital Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh.

Pam writes: " Dr Konstatina Martzoukou from Robert Gordon University spoke about her Information Literacy Group funded project Syrian Scots information literacy way-finding practices: phase 1 research findings. 2 Syrian refugees offices, 9 Syrian men, 9 Syrian men and 1 volunteer took part in focus group and interviews. Most participants were heavy users of mobile phones (rather than computers) and found the whatsapp group very useful, and also services such as google translate.

A few other links: - There is a brief report on the first day, on the Information Literacy Group page [link] - Josie Fraser's keynote is at [link] - Andrew Walsh's poster [link] - Gore and Smith's Creating a social media mediated learning experience [link] - Secker's Creative approaches to copyright education [link] Photo by Pam McKinney of Ian Vine's award winning photo of the Richard Burton archives - displayed at Swansea University, April 2017.

Group activities can be tricky to implement in the webinar in the same way that they can be easily used in the face to face classes. Another report from Pam McKinney at the LILAC conference : Pam writes: "This afternoon I watched Dorothea Lemke from the Technical University of Munich , Germany, presenting Waking up webinars: bringing active learning online. Webinars can be very dull, or total information overload.

We were given 3 scenarios to discuss in groups, and we were invited to think of metaphors that we could use to describe the research process to a student who was experiencing difficulties e.g. A student who was fixated on only one source: this is only hearing one instrument in the orchestra, you need to hear multiple instruments to understand the music.

Barbara once worked as an IT trainer for a group of gamekeepers, and learnt an important lesson- find out what you students are interested in and use this to frame the learning. It's day 2 of the LILAC conference in Swansea and Pam McKinney @ischoolPam is reporting again. Pam writes: "I attended Barbara Allan 's keynote this morning, which was about the ways in which librarians can make an impact beyond the library and embed digital and information literacy in the wider university.

A suite of suitable tools is needed to support work being done in teams and groups. Most large organizations today have some suite of social tools to share information and knowledge. But how do they know if they have the optimum tools for their context? Too often the tools are selected and then the workers are left to figure out how to use them. Based on work with several clients over the past few years, I have identified seven essential facets for enterprise social networks.

A feedback session was held where the reflective writing was discussed in groups, and Shirley gave tutor feedback on the writing. The final post today from Pam McKinney at the LILAC conference and many thanks to her for these! Shirley Yearwood-Jackman from the University of Liverpool presented on using reflection to develop meta cognitive skills for IL. Shirley asked the question "are student self-assessments of their information literacy ability accurate?"

The masterclass was run as part of the project which featured a selection of short workshops offered in one room to small groups of 6 students, with a mixture of student and librarian facilitators. See my paper on student group working for the same conclusion).

The research team collected data from a short survey, identified 10 core participants who completed research diaries over an 8 month period and took part in a focus group. Another report from Pam McKinney @ischoolPam at the LILAC conference : Pam writes: " Helen Young from Loughborough university library and Laura Montgomery from Taylor and Francis presented on the information needs and behaviours of PGR students.

Pam writes "Sheila Corrall has a long interest in continuing professional development and reflective practice, while Alison found that reflection is a large aspect of her approach to research, and was heavily involved with CPD through the CILIP career development group. My colleague Pam McKinney @ischoolPam is feeding me posts from the annual LILAC conference , being held this week in Swansea, Wales.

Group activities like this can connect self-directed learning and enterprise curation, as shown in the figure above. Recording and sharing our knowledge (working out loud) helps groups learn as they work. Groups working in the complex domain have to undertake safe-to-fail experiments on a regular basis in order to test and understand the changing external environment.

In groups, we workshopped each of the biases and explored three key areas: examples we have seen, how to recognise when this is happening and tips on how to avoid. All the tips were then shared with each group and built into a takeaway summary for members. The recent Intranet Leadership Forum meeting was hosted at ANZ’s new corporate headquarters in Pitt Street, Sydney, and we enjoyed a live demonstration of ANZ’s social intranet Max Connect.

We have included materials needed for conducting and analysing individual interviews and focus groups with children." A useful set of resources for researchers has been developed by the Global Kids Online project: "an international research project that aims to generate and sustain a rigorous cross-national evidence base around children’s use of the internet".

So it’s vital that everyone has the best knowledge available, and not just within the core team, but also in supporting groups, such as comms, IT or HR (depending on where the intranet sits). Not only will this turbocharge the learning, but it will give you an unequalled opportunity to better gel as a group. Invest in this complete group package we’ve put together again for Intranets2017.

The study used a multiple qualitative case study approach and data was primarily collected from children's focus groups, librarians' interviews, teachers' interviews, documents and observation. The latest issue of the open access journal Information Research is a bumper one, including proceedings from two conferences as well as the usual articles.

I’m sure we’ve all complained about students or faculty members to our colleagues when we’re blowing off steam (though calling them dumb seems beyond the pale), but I truly cannot understand what would make a group of people think it was ok to put such a thing up on a slide.

Is your L&D group working transparently, leveraging social media to both support effective performance and continue to develop? I was listening to a tale recounting a time when an organization was going through a change, and had solicited help. And the story surprised me. The short story is that the initial approach being taken weren’t leveraging technology effectively. And it led me to wonder how many organizations are still doing things the old way.

Erdevez] qualitative data — from surveys and interviews — showed that the subjects fell into three distinct groups. Thank Goodness It’s Monday. Now that’s something we freelancers appreciate As part of the wonder of Monday, I am starting a series of posts, similar to Friday’s Finds , but posted on the best day of the week: Monday. I have no intention of making this a regular feature but from time to on Monday, I will share something I think may be useful.

It is sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. There is a free Teachmeet at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, on 4 May 2017: Information Literacy and Making Judgements: from Brexit to The White House. They are "looking for presenters and enthusiastic audience members": "We believe library and information professionals should make a significant contribution to addressing concerns about fake news, 'alternative facts' and echo chambers.

It is sponsored by the ASIS&T Special Interest Group - Education. "In Heidi Julien (Professor and Chair of the Department of Library & Information Studies at the University at Buffalo) is presenting a webinar on 31 March 2017, at 1pm US Eastern time (which is 6pm UK time): The Role of Information Scholars and Professionals in Responding to Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda.